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Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8482 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,258,192 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7136 times as biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,781,305 ratings — published 1947
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5043 times as biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,065,870 ratings — published 2018
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4457 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 398,338 ratings — published 2015
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4226 times as biography)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,563,155 ratings — published 2018
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4187 times as biography)
avg rating 4.38 — 949,264 ratings — published 2010
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3954 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 187,366 ratings — published 2007
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3926 times as biography)
avg rating 4.08 — 362,963 ratings — published 2001
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 3841 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 183,010 ratings — published 2004
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3731 times as biography)
avg rating 4.49 — 707,438 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3568 times as biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 743,171 ratings — published 2010
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3216 times as biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 108,281 ratings — published 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3181 times as biography)
avg rating 4.36 — 270,212 ratings — published 1965
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3126 times as biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,101,240 ratings — published 1996
Bossypants (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3100 times as biography)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,012,517 ratings — published 2011
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3093 times as biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 581,935 ratings — published 2012
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3010 times as biography)
avg rating 4.04 — 140,695 ratings — published 2003
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 2764 times as biography)
avg rating 4.27 — 202,734 ratings — published 1985
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2514 times as biography)
avg rating 4.47 — 306,339 ratings — published 2016
I'm Glad My Mom Died (ebook)
by (shelved 2488 times as biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,056,748 ratings — published 2022
Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2378 times as biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,259,236 ratings — published 1956
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2376 times as biography)
avg rating 4.40 — 683,640 ratings — published 2016
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2369 times as biography)
avg rating 4.33 — 232,977 ratings — published 2020
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 2258 times as biography)
avg rating 4.29 — 536,544 ratings — published 1969
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2172 times as biography)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,231,004 ratings — published 2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 2172 times as biography)
avg rating 4.28 — 187,866 ratings — published 2005
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2159 times as biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 74,220 ratings — published 2010
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2063 times as biography)
avg rating 3.73 — 117,880 ratings — published 2010
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2011 times as biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 530,120 ratings — published 2014
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 1956 times as biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 85,603 ratings — published 1791
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1944 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 75,099 ratings — published 2010
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1896 times as biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 104,306 ratings — published 2011
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Paperback)
by (shelved 1894 times as biography)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,934 ratings — published 1979
Man’s Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 1848 times as biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 730,749 ratings — published 1946
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 1843 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,718 ratings — published 1998
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1821 times as biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 328,391 ratings — published 1971
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 1815 times as biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 632,954 ratings — published 1996
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1802 times as biography)
avg rating 4.35 — 87,737 ratings — published 1994
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1732 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 93,088 ratings — published 2015
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1732 times as biography)
avg rating 4.06 — 805,953 ratings — published 2012
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1716 times as biography)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,590 ratings — published 2005
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1660 times as biography)
avg rating 3.93 — 225,946 ratings — published 1995
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1653 times as biography)
avg rating 4.49 — 37,875 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1635 times as biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 416,004 ratings — published 2016
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1592 times as biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 342,816 ratings — published 2020
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1580 times as biography)
avg rating 4.11 — 124,814 ratings — published 1845
Tuesdays with Morrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 1469 times as biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,044,078 ratings — published 1997
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1460 times as biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 368,298 ratings — published 2023
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1410 times as biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 60,012 ratings — published 2015
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 1397 times as biography)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,755,985 ratings — published 2006
“Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.”
― The New York Trilogy
― The New York Trilogy
“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.”
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